Anyone else remember getting this baseball card? ('89 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr.) [pic]
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Posted Jun 3, 2010, 8:01 PM UTC
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At this point I need Ken Griffey Jr. and Ron Gant to hijack a jet liner, crash it into Rickey Henderson's house, survive, and be arrested by Will Clark and Barry Bonds in a flying time machine. If this happens I may be able to break even on my card collection.
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I got one of those autographed Tony Gwynn cards in a pack of 1992 Fleer Ultra. It was worth about $500 the day I got it, but my dad told me to save it. Worst financial advice ever. It was worth $3 the last time I checked.
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Hells Yeah! I remember that card. I still have it...I think.
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Still have 3 of them..
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Yes it was an automatic $2.50 in your pocket when you got it.
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Last year I got an 89 box of unopened cards from this set. My friends and I had the best time opening the packs and reading the names of the old players.
It was like a time machine when one of us opened the Griffey! The look in all of our eyes was the same greedy, lustful, secretive you got in '89 when you knew you had one valuable card in your hand.
We laughed for a long time!
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Everyone who has this card flash it around. I'll remember getting it eventually.
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NO I DON'T! Thank you for rubbing it in my face though! I always wanted that card, at some point I settled for his leaf card... :( so sad
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Haha. I have one too. At least I hope I still do. It is hopefully still stored away at a family members house with all of my autographed cards. But Griffey was my favorite to collect and I still have about a hundred of his cards.
I remember this upperdeck card is #1. What does Beckett say it is worth these days? Anybody know? Also remember sometimes on the hologram on the back, the baseball diamond, may not be perfectly centered, thus making it not mint.
I'm gunna go snap some pics of nostalgia real quick...
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I got the complete 89 Upper Deck set for my birthday one year. First thing I did was take that card out and put it in a thick plastic case.
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If this post makes you nostalgic, I really can't recommend enough the book Mint Condition. He has a really great section on this card.
Edit -- Here's an article by book's author:
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My brother has an unopened box set w/ guaranteed Griffey rookie card.
His collection is kind of insane. Although, his favorite player was Jose Canseco -- and all his cards took a big hit.
Even with his troubles, my Barry Bonds collection is turning out to be the winner between the two of us.
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That was an awesome card to chase. I remember it being difficult to even find packs of 1989 Upper Deck's in the stores. And when you did, they were overpriced and you bought them all anyway. You'd get three Dave Stieb's in the same pack and there was never the Griffey. Til that one day, when you opened that pack and saw that smile back at ya. What a card. What a player. What a career. Thanks, Kid Griff.
i had it. i think upper deck was why i quit collecting cards. they were too expensive on my measly allowance, and all other cards looked like shit after those came out.